Addressing some of the national security problems Donald Trump taking a loan from a billionaire of a foreign country could cause on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, Andrew Weissman summed up nicely how fucked up our national security would be with Donald Trump around any classified information:
Having been in the intelligence community, this is one– this is not and shouldn’t be a partisan issue. What Donald Trump has done, not just–leave aside whether he gets the [bond] money from a foreign person or adversary–what he has done in the way he treated both the intelligence community and denigrated them and in the way he’s treated classified documents isn’t a future harm; that is a current harm to our national security.
What Ambassador [Susan] Rice knows is that in order to keep this country secured, you have to complete alliances and trust with your colleagues overseas, with the so-called Five Eyes. Other countries need to trust that you will keep their secrets and they can work with you to prevent terrorism…. All of that is put in jeopardy when they’re thinking that this man, Donald Trump, could be back in the Oval Office because all of those things can become public and that is not in the interest of our allies and even our adversaries who are willing to work with us on this problem. It is an incredibly serious problem for this country now.